I pledge 0.2% of my personal GDP if you can identify which section this text is from: “Identify ways and means of providing new and additional financial resources, to developing countries, for environmentally sound development programs and projects in accordance with national development objectives, priorities and plans…” Well, this text was drafted twenty one years ago. A couple of years later a set of delegates pledged $125 billion of financial assistance to the developing world for implementing sustainable development practices as identified under the Agenda 21 of the Rio Earth Summit. It’s a different story that most of that money never saw the light of the day.

But history, as they say, repeats itself. Climate change is apparently not as grave a threat as unsustainable development, so…